Consecutive Integers which are Powers of 2 or 3/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Consecutive Integers which are Powers of 2 or 3
The result Consecutive Integers which are Powers of 2 or 3 was demonstrated rigorously by Levi ben Gershon, under the name Leo Hebraeus, in his De numeris harmonicis of $1343$.
Sources
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Catalan's conjecture